Tag Archives: neoconservatism

Sometimes a letter is better than a column

Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies has only been studying the Israel Palestine issue for, what– 25 years? I’m guessing. So she gets a letter in the Washington Post, a neoconservative bastion that gives columns to Bill Kristol, … Continue reading

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‘WaPo’ hired Rubin because the Iraq war gang needs to hang together or hang separately

Jack Ross at PostRight, at the American Conservative, nails the wackadelic hire of Jennifer Rubin by the Washington Post. Excerpts: Jennifer Rubin is a museum-quality specimen of the Jewish self-hate at the core of the neoconservative phenomenon (and also, not … Continue reading

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Is new Washington Post blogger, Jennifer Rubin, a conservative or a neoconservative?

Here’s a report on the Washington Post’s hiring of “conservative” blogger Jennifer Rubin. The report includes the announcement memo from WP Op-Ed editor Fred Hiatt. Some points of confusion: –Rubin is regularly referred to as a conservative columnist. Is she … Continue reading

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If you wear the ‘neoconservative burqa,’ you will never see the ‘root cause of Muslim antagonism to the U.S.’

Prince Turki Al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia spoke to the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations in Washington last month. The speech was reprinted in the latest Washington Report for Middle East Affairs (I subscribe; this issue’s not online yet). Some staggering … Continue reading

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Q: Does Chomsky feel Jewish responsibility for Israel’s crimes?

Here is a great interview of the great Chomsky by David Samuels at Tablet, thoroughly exploring the roots of Chomsky’s ethnic/religious identification, which I think is largely unconscious for him. Samuels is uniquely positioned to do this, he comes out … Continue reading

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Joy to the world, David Broder says Obama can rejuvenate the economy by going to war with Iran

“The war recovery?” by David Broder in the Washington Post. Is this a Zionist trojan horse? Here is where Obama is likely to prevail. With strong Republican support in Congress for challenging Iran’s ambition to become a nuclear power, he … Continue reading

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‘NPR’ gives Avigdor Lieberman a pass, as always

Yesterday my wife and I contributed to the New York public radio pledge drive. I do it because I listen to NPR a lot, and because I often trash NPR on this site. You got to pay the piper. Then … Continue reading

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More about trickster/debater/Canadian Gabriel Latner, 19

Gabriel Latner is the Cambridge University law student who was assigned by the Cambridge Union debating society to argue the affirmative side of the proposition, “Israel is a rogue state” on October 21, then used the opportunity to take on … Continue reading

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Cambridge debate on Israel is undermined by wily neocon (is that redundant?)

An interesting PR battle over Israel in England is related by a friend: Cambridge University’s Union Society held a debate last week with the motion “This House Believes that Israel is a Rogue State.” Because of the public relations stakes, … Continue reading

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Kramer says that the Persian Gulf is ‘as crucial to American security as Lake Michigan’

Can you trust someone’s judgment if every time they talk about the Middle East they refer to it as “the Levant?” I don’t think so. Sandbox author Martin Kramer is not just pretentious, but scary and Israel-centric. Here he is … Continue reading

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Busy Bill Kristol

He’s visiting Harvard Law School tomorrow to give a speech, sponsored by the HLS Republicans, and then he’s at the Zionist Organization of America with Gary Bauer and the deputy speaker of the Knesset. Would Harvard Law School invite Gary … Continue reading

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